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Bailment is distinguished from a contract of sale or a gift of property, as it only involves the transfer of possession and not its ownership.To create a bailment, the bailee must both intend to possess, and actually physically possess, the bailable chattel for example a car mechanic business when a car has been dropped off for repair.
An example of a nudum pactum would be an offer to sell something without a corresponding offer of value in exchange. While the offer may bind a person morally, since the offer has not been created with any consideration, it is gratuitous and treated as a unilateral contract. The offer is therefore revocable at any time by the offeror before ...
A common transaction involving bailment is a conditional sale or hire-purchase, in which the seller lets the buyer have possession of the thing before it is paid for. The buyer pays the purchase price in installments and, when it is fully paid, ownership of the thing is transferred from seller to buyer.
An assignment does not necessarily have to be made in writing; however, the assignment agreement must show an intent to transfer rights. The effect of a valid assignment is to extinguish privity (in other words, contractual relationship, including right to sue) between the assignor and the third-party obligor and create privity between the obligor and the assignee.
In the course of his judgment, Holt gave this well-known statement of the categories of bailment: And there are six sorts of bailments. The first sort of bailment is, a bare naked bailment of goods, delivered by one man to another to keep for the use of the bailor; and this I call a depositum , and it is that sort of bailment which is mentioned ...
A Contract is formed by the acceptance of an offer; an offer can be constituted by responding to an invitation to treat. Variation of the original offer counts as counter-offer. A leading piece of legislation in Scots contract law is the Contract (Scotland) Act 1997. This act includes damages for breach of contract of sale.
In civil law systems, a synallagmatic contract is a contract in which each party to the contract is bound to provide something to the other party. [1] Its name is derived from the Ancient Greek συνάλλαγμα (synallagma), meaning mutual agreement. [2] Examples of synallagmatic contracts include contracts of sale, of service, or of hiring.
Philippine contract law takes a middle ground between the common law and civil law approaches to liquidated damages or penalty clauses. While such provisions are lawful and enforceable, a court may reduce such damages if it finds their effect to be iniquitous or unconscionable. [246]